The company earned $9.4 million, or 28 cents per share, in the fourth quarter, compared with $8.7 million, or 27 cents per share, a year ago.

Revenue in the quarter increased 16 percent to $95.4 million.

Besides the court systems, Tyler provides IT services to other public sector clients, such as cities, counties and schools. It has 2,400 employees.

During the quarter, Tyler also secured several major contracts with governments and court systems, including a $2.9 million deal with Dallas to integrate the city’s municipal court applications into one system.

Moreover, the company won a state contract to provide a unified e-filing court platform for Texas’ courts. TexFile will allow attorneys and litigants to file new cases and additional documents to a court via the Web.

The state will transition to mandatory e-filing for civil cases starting in January under a Texas Supreme Court order.

Tyler said it expects long-term recurring annual revenue of $15 million to $20 million from the TexFile contract once mandatory e-filing is fully implemented. Tyler will be paid on a per-filing basis under the agreement with the state Office of Court Administration.

Nine states use Tyler’s court management services throughout their entire systems.

In Texas, about 55 percent of county courts are Tyler customers.

As more states and court systems move toward mandatory e-filing, the company sees increased opportunities to capture new customers as well as upgrade existing ones, said Bruce Graham, president of Tyler’s Courts & Justice Division.

“We are hiring very aggressively,” Graham said of his division, which has 350 employees.

Later this year, Tyler will move into a new corporate headquarters in Plano. It will consolidate its Dallas corporate headquarters and operations on International Parkway in Plano to the new complex in the Legacy business park.

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